The MHP Daily: June 11, 2012

We here on the blog have been away for a few days, but the show hasn’t – be sure to check out this past weekend’s segments, available in the carousel above. And below, you’ll find “The MHP Daily,” an early-morning list of links you’ll now find at the top of this blog every morning to feed the news-hungry politics junkie in all of you before we add our regular blog posts for the day. We hope that you find it useful.

Last week, The Maddow Blog’s Steve Benen debunked the Republican lie that the stimulus didn’t work. TPM’s Brian Beutler today addresses the Republican talking point that “Obamacare” will kill jobs, citing a study that examined its Massachusetts ancestor:

To gauge the likely, actual impact of the law, the Urban Institute prepared a study on the economic impacts of Mitt Romney’s Massachusetts health care reforms, which were the inspiration for “Obamacare.”

Its conclusion? “Massachusetts achieved its goal of near-universal health insurance coverage under its 2006 health reform initiative, with no indication of negative job consequences relative to other states.”

The two laws aren’t identical. But they share so much in common that researchers concluded, based on their findings in Massachusetts, that “national health reform will not lead to job loss or stymied economic growth.”